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| + | [[User:Chazegh|Chazegh]] 14:12, 26 January 2006 (PST) | ||
| − | [[User: | + | : Is this the same as the "Open Phone" ? |
| + | :: [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/09/05/the-complete-open-phone.html "The Complete Open Phone"] by Matthew Hamrick, 2006-09-05 | ||
| + | :: ''("Matthew Hamrick is the co-founder of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club ... Matthew ... proposes a truly open mobile phone platform.")'' | ||
| + | : Even if it is not, would it be a good idea to join forces, share resources, etc. ? | ||
| + | : Is it really possible to build a cell phone with "reasonable" weight and battery lifetime using mostly generic hardware (a FPGA, a Kilocore, off-the-shelf ADCs and DACs, etc.) and lots of software, rather than hard-wiring everything with custom hardware? | ||
| + | : ... See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio wikipedia:Software-defined_radio] ... | ||
| + | : --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 13:01, 24 September 2006 (PDT) | ||
Revision as of 12:01, 24 September 2006
This is a description of a project to create an open software, open hardware mobile communications device. Initial iterations will be very simple, but will progress to having full smartphone-like functionality and beyond.
The Open Mobile Gadgets Architecture
Here's a quick block diagram of the device that I want to build. More details to come about the specific hardware implementation.
Open Gadgets Architecture (Block Diagram)
If you're interested, contact me (chazegh @ flashmob.com).
-- Chazegh 14:12, 26 January 2006 (PST)
- Is this the same as the "Open Phone" ?
- "The Complete Open Phone" by Matthew Hamrick, 2006-09-05
- ("Matthew Hamrick is the co-founder of the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club ... Matthew ... proposes a truly open mobile phone platform.")
- Even if it is not, would it be a good idea to join forces, share resources, etc. ?
- Is it really possible to build a cell phone with "reasonable" weight and battery lifetime using mostly generic hardware (a FPGA, a Kilocore, off-the-shelf ADCs and DACs, etc.) and lots of software, rather than hard-wiring everything with custom hardware?
- ... See wikipedia:Software-defined_radio ...
- --DavidCary 13:01, 24 September 2006 (PDT)
